Brick-machine attachment.



N0.. 806,312. PATENTED DBC. 5, 1905.

J. G. BARBOUR.

` BRIG'K'MACHINE ATTACHMENT.

'APPLICATION FILED MAM; 1905.

WITNESS ES I N V E N TOR Jmfs G arow.

ATTORNEY JAMES G. BARBOUR, OF CANTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE METROPOLITANy j and to the figures of referencemarked there- UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEIoE.

BRICK COMPANY, OF CANTON, OHIO, A CORPORATION.

l BRICK-MACHINE ATTACHMENT..v

Specification of Letters latent.l

Patented Dec. 5, 1905.

To all whom it may concern,.-

Be it known that I, JAMES G. 'BARBoUa a citizen of the United States, residing at Can-j ton, in the county of Stark and State of Ohio,v have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Brick-Machine Attachments; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and lexact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification,

on, in whichi Figure 1 is a horizontal vertical section showing the auger portion of a brick-machine and illustrating my attachment connected thereto. Fig. 2 is a detached and enlarged l view of the attachment. 1

The present invention has relation to brickmachine attachments designed to beattached to the auger lor forced-feed portions of the machine proper and `is for the pur ose of breaking up the lamination of t e c ay,

which lamination is produced by the rotation of the auger-blades, and leaves the flow of clay in what might be termed spiral strata by' reason of which the brick produced from the `flow of clay when burned are liable to crack onaccount of the lamination produced by the auger-blades. In order to overcome this objection, I provide the s ider-hub 1, which spider-hub is provided wiih the radial blades 2. The spider-hub 1 is loosely mounted upon the forward end of the auger-shaft 3 and is held in pro er position by means of the screw-threade nut 4 or its equivalent. By

loosely mounting the hub 1 upon the augershaft 3 the auger-shaft 3 will rotate Without imparting rotary movement to the spiderhub 1 an the radial blades 2.

The auger 5 is of the usual construction and of course is located Within the casing 6 in the usual manner and the'die 7 located so that' the flow of clay will pass through said die to give it the proper form to -be cut into brick orsaid parts. It is well understood that by the rotation of the auger the4 clay contained in the casing 6 is moved toward'the die and a partial rotation of the clay o r plastic material is imparted or may be imparted to the clay; but after theA clay or plastic material` has. passed the eXtreme' forward end of the auger the flow ofy clay or plastic material is forced throu h the die without any rotation, and by looseIymounting the hub 1 together with the radial blades 2 the i'lowof clay is severed into strips or segments, which strips or segments are brought in close contact With each other during-the time the clay passes throughthe die, by which arrangement the spiral strata formed by the rotation of the auger-blades is removed and the body of clay or plastic material after having assed through the die is united and the spira lamination entirely removed.

`I have illustrated the attachment mounted u on -the auger-shaft; but this feature may e dispensed with, as it will be understood that all that is necessary is to locate between the forward end of the au er and .the rear portion of the die non-rotatab e bars,

which bars may be held as illustrated or they may be differently held Without departin from the nature of my invention. a

aving fully described my invention,what

1I claim as new, and desire to secure by Let- In a brick-machine attachment for the JAMES G. BARBUR.

Witnesses J. A. JEFFEES, F. W. BOND. 

